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Beat the Streak Report: Tuesday, May 17

You Streakers like to live dangerously.

Last night’s top pick, taking home 11.1 percent of the popular vote, was a player who came into the evening batting .208. He had six hits in his last 30 at-bats and just a pair of multihit efforts in his previous 11 games. The guy is sixth on his own team in the base knocks department and regularly sets up shop out of the eight-hole.

Does that mean you all made the “right” decision by rolling with the scuffling speedster? Well, yeah, it does. But there’s a murky border between Continued Streakistan and the Republic of Square One, and crossing the line has never been easier. Seriously, the customs agents will wave you through for a bag of Nacho Cheesier Doritos and a couple Fruit by the Foots. (The Republic of Square One is like 15 years behind the US in terms of snacks. Show up with a bag of Spicy Bold Chex Mix and you will be a god among men.)

There are no extra BTS points for degree of difficulty, gamers. If you really need to pick a Red Sox player, we recommend the guy with a sketchy goatee and a .349 average this month.

Buddycrise sits right on the precipice. Thanks to Martin Prado, he became the 10th Streaker of the season to reach 27 games. However, only three of the previous nine continued on to 28 games — the all-important one-game-short-of-over-halfway-to-$5.6-million milestone. Show us what you’ve got, Buddy Crise. Or Bud C.Rise. Or Bud Dycrise.

37 Comments

I was seriously looking at one of your boys today: M.Young
I don’t normally pay much attention to previous 5-year ABs, but in this case, 2 of 13 where of the remaining 11 ABs, 6 were strikeouts — that was the stat that turned me away. Guess I’m sticking with Vlad (rain or not) as I’m not willing to move to a 3rd string pick. GL with Prado.

I get the feeling that more games will be PPD. Lots of rain today from the Carolinas to New England, and from the Ohio Valley to the Atlantic. Even the California games could be dealing at least with showers. Only the indoor games (TB/AZ), plus Denver/KC/Chicago/St. Louis appear to be completely in the clear.

53? That equates to 2 full pages on the standings. Still gotta wonder what goes thru someone’s mind when after a week or more of successful picks, they can’t simply make a pick 1-2 days out to prevent getting reset due to no pick.

I’m sure there are reason and not many very good. But double digit streaks don’t usually come back to back to back often. Once I got there, I would rather make a pick (DL or otherwise) 1-2 days out vs not picking at all. If time allowed me to change then great; otherwise if 3 hours elapsed after locks, at least I had a chance vs. no chance.

It’s a nice feeling when all 3 guys that were given thought for today came through. Prado continued his tear, Andrus got one off Danks and Berkman hasn’t homered but he did hit. Keith a pause is always better than a reset.

As for the pause. Doesn’t bother me. If I was at 1 or 2, I’d make a haste pick. But first time this season looking at double digits and better slow/safe then hasty/reset. I’ve more or less decided to select my best pick and play that only. If for some reason I find he is benched, then I’ll struggle for another to prevent the pinch hit (most likely a backup AL catcher). Otherwise, no rush decisions.

My logic worked for me with M.Young though. Earlier I mentioned I didn’t feel comfortable due to his high strikeouts against Danks. Though Young got a hit, it was in the 8th off a reliever. I consider any pick of mine that doesn’t get a hit off the starter as a failed pick and pure luck if the hit comes off a reliever. On my current streak (17 hits in 9 games), all 1st hits were off the starters. Whatever I’m doing, am doing right so far.

Don’t sweat it. I was looking at M.Young, Damon & Holliday. 2 of the 3 got hits, 1 didn’t. Glad I didn’t force myself, might have picked the wrong one. Besides you’ll be at either 9 or 0 tomorrow anyway; what’s one more day 😉

@Champ88. If you want to load up a DL player for this weekend, look at Derek Lee ASAP. Per rotoworld, will be placed on DL today. This weekend are interleague games and a DL pick will be useful if you aren’t comfortable with a particular day.

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